The best way to find a work from home job is to consult and build your own business. Turning your full-time job into a part-time at home gig can be about asking. It can also be about offering one aspect of what you do today to more companies. Let's say you handle tradeshows for your company. Plan events and tradeshows…

There are a lot of moms (and dads) who are work heroes - they always seem to have to prove to everyone that their kids are not interfering with their workload. Instead, I have always looked at my employees who are parents as the most dedicated, productive and efficient. They have less time to waste and more to…

You can get a better deal on electronics in October than you can on Black Friday. Year over year, ad watchers have proven that the Black Friday options are under-featured and overpriced compared to the October deals. Retailers make room for the Black Friday items throughout the store. So if you really want to get the…

As designers of back to school furniture you can buy at Staples, Costco and elsewhere, the best deals are not back to school furniture, but the clearance items. At this time of year, they clearance slow moving items to make way for new collections and chairs. These will be better made and last longer than back to…

We agree with JordanAT. When our first daughter was born, Tom would try to work in the office with the baby in the swing or rocker chair. Calls always came in at the wrong moment. Work was always piling up and completing tasks felt overwhelming. Get a sitter in the home or use day care a few days a week if possible.…

Sorry - didn't see this follow-up question before. The design process is harder to control the timeline. Inspiration can strike whenever. Working from home makes it easy to just jump into the office and start sketching or follow the creative flow. It is also the hardest thing as well. It means that the creative flow…

There are guides and ebooks on Amazon about work from home careers. Not sure how reliable or up to date they are, but they exist. The best way to find a work from home job is to create one yourself.

If the move was purely for business such as a sales rep expanding into a new territory, then you might want to ask for moving expenses. If it is personal, no. As for furniture and equipment, I would ask if they have any excess equipment or furniture that they can provide. Many companies will not do this because it…

We get out of the home/office when the loneliness sets in. We try to structure research or networking coffee. If it is not possible to get out, we play music. Anything to keep on task! Although I (Tracy) personally prefer the quiet time and feel like that is when I am most productive.

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There are always opportunities for expats in any country. When my parents were working on a job site in Venezuela, my younger sister taught aerobics to all the relocated wives. It was a big hit and her class was in constant demand. Don't let her underestimate the market for her services. Just network with those in a…

Get a nanny, send your son to preschool. It is not possible to be a professional with a toddler underfoot. Believe us we have tried. When our daughter was born we split shifts to make it work and our relationship and work suffered. We were more tired and ended working more hours. A nanny doesn't have to be an…

Align yourself with someone else. Create a complementary freelance network. For instance we offer retail product design so a logical connection might be with a package graphic designer. We can help each other with referrals and collaborate on projects. Depending on your skill set, local networks or LinkedIn. We have…

This would be a great app to be able to suppress all your notifications without having to change the settings in each program. Shutting sound isn't enough when notifications visually flash as well.

We do find that we need to have collaborative spaces and quiet spaces in order to accomplish the different types of tasks, especially the creative ones. For us a lounge area away from the main computer on the desk is helpful so there are no email interruptions. Sometimes we set our push notifications to once every…

We do this because Tracy is working on a book which is not necessarily going to make us immediate money. But it is something she is compelled to do. We just look at it as a sanity balance. Personal projects keep us fresh and mentally healthy to work harder. We have always that when you have more to do, more gets done.…

Tracy is just like you. She is always working feverishly worried about the next check and I (Tom) has more faith that there will be new opprotunities. Lightening up is extremely difficult. Tracy's view is that you need to operate on a cash-basis for everything. Don't spend, plan first. Project out income/expenses and…

We suggest you start-up a small business or side freelance work to begin with and then when it reaches a certain scale, quit your day job. It is not easy to find work-from-home opportunities that don't come from a sign on the side of the road offering quick money. Working from home is not a money maker sure thing. It…

There is an unfortunate trend thanks to yahoo and other companies against working form home. We have never had to talk our bosses into working from home, so we may not be the right advisors here. However, we have clients who don't care where we work because we have demonstrated our productivity to them. It is in the…

1) Social skills are important but we are not new in our careers so our network is well established. We do Skype often, even with new clients to help establish face time. We also make a lot of actual phone calls, not just emails and texts.